"We see this as a first step for the structural integration of Islam in Germany," said Erol Pürlü, a spokesman for the Coordination Council of Muslims in Germany, an umbrella organization for several Islamic groups.

Erol Alkan and Boys Noize provide the dirty electro tweaks that contrast beautifully with Cocker's spoken recitation of Cohen's lyrics, as if at 2:17am you'd stumbled into a grotty nightclub beloved of German drug monkeys only to find a sophisticated poetry reading.